Overview
- Russia’s presidential press service released the holiday messages on December 30, publishing recipient lists on the official Kremlin website and via state agencies.
- BRICS and Global South leaders featured prominently, with greetings to China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Ethiopia’s leadership.
- European figures received limited but notable mentions, including Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Slovakia’s Robert Fico and Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic, alongside NATO member Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
- Other recipients included U.S. President Donald Trump, DPRK leader Kim Jong Un and Pope Leo XIV, reflecting outreach across political and religious spheres.
- Messages also went to Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan and President Vaagn Khachaturyan as well as Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, and several former leaders such as Raúl Castro, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Gerhard Schröder.